Top 10 Birthday Traditions Around the World

Different countries adopt different methods to wish their birthday-mates. Here is a list of such birthday traditions around the world. Also, wherever I have mentioned 'you' or 'your', it refers to the person having their birthday.

The Top Ten

1 All birthdays are celebrated on New Year’s Day (Vietnam)

Celebrating birthdays in different time periods is a decadent bourgeois tradition. Your birthday is OUR birthday, as stated in the manifesto.

To think of all the ridiculous things countries do under the name of communism

This is just ridiculous.Why can't they celebrate the day you were born because you know it's the day you were born.-DarkBoi-X

What? Why not the actual day you are born?

2 Eating noodles to promote your long life (China)

Whenever we eat at Chinatowns during an elderly relative's birthday, noodles are ALWAYS served. (We're Chinese)

Though some people do this everyday

3 Being lifted up and down on a chair (Israel)

I just hope they don't do it to the elderly. Or the obese.

4 A pull on your earlobe for each year you’ve lived (Brazil)

5 A mixture of rice yogurt and coloring wiped on your forehead for good luck (Nepal)

6 A birthday pie with a greeting carved into its crust (Russia)

Heh, I remembered doing this during my cousin's birthday.

This sounds great.

7 A song and dance with a friend in front of your class at school (Norway)

That's just bound to be embarrassing for everyone involved.

8 Greasing your nose with butter or margarine (Canada)

Same as clusium - I've never heard of that. I can only guess - probably in some tribes of Aboriginal /Native people.

I'm a Canadian, & I have never heard of that, in my whole life.

9 Getting your face coated with flour by friends and family (Jamaica)

10 Flying flags outside your window (Denmark)

The Contenders

11 Birthday spankings (Canada)

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